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Rescue Mission needs turkeys

With 250 people signed up, the Durham Rescue Mission has plenty of volunteers to help serve Thanksgiving dinner to the hungry.

What they need are turkeys.

The mission needs 100 turkeys to feed the 1,000 people expected Thanksgiving Day. As of Friday, there were three birds in the freezer.

O thankful pioneers

Regarding your Nov. 26 editorial "Thankful, yes," it really got me thinking about how we tend to forget the real significance of the holiday and the significance of the first settlers in Jamestown, Va., where the first Thanksgiving was held.

This Thanksgiving was especially meaningful for me and my wife, who have just retired and moved to this new life from New York City. Like pioneers ourselves, we took joy from family and realized how lucky to have this first Thanksgiving in North Carolina at the twilights of our lives.

Norman Singer, Cary

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What: Thanksgiving in a bowl

How much: $6.50

Marketing run amok

I don't know whose idea it was to have the Raleigh Christmas Parade before Thanksgiving, but he needs to be run out of town on a drumstick. Puhleeze....

Merchants have long buried us in holiday buying messages, sullying Thanksgiving and stretching the so-called "season to be jolly" into almost a financial quarter of drudgery and tension. Does the City of Raleigh have to add to the pile-on? It's the worst kind of ETJ [extraterritorial jurisdiction] expansion that will likely result eventually in the death of Thanksgiving, about the only season left that hasn't been marketed to death.

If you're going to annex Thanksgiving into Christmas limits, please publish the usual public notices and get it over with. If the parade occurs before turkey day, however, I'll boycott and lobby my friends to do the same.

Aid sought to feed families

The Helping Hand Mission of Raleigh is looking for donations to help it fill food baskets for needy families this weekend.

The mission, which is serving Thanksgiving dinners today, hopes to send everyone home with a food basket, or Love Basket, as it calls them. It is short of canned goods, stuffing, cranberry sauce and hams.

More than 1,000 families have contacted the mission seeking help with food for Thanksgiving, said Executive Director Sylvia Wiggins. To help, call the mission at 829-8048.